[Marxism] The Curious Case of the “Democratic Road to Socialism” That Wasn’t There - New Politics

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[Marxism] How Chinese authorities and the WHO handled the coronavirus (Counterpunch)

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Trump is trying to distract attention from his own failure to prepare for the 
impact of the coronavirus on the US by blaming China and the World Health 
Organisation.

I am not a supporter of the Chinese government. I regard China as a capitalist 
state which is increasingly becoming an imperialist power:

http://links.org.au/node/2349

But in this case, the criticism of China is largely unjustified, as shown in a 
series of articles by Vijay Prashad and others (see below).

Chris Slee


https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/08/how-china-learned-about-sars-cov-2-in-the-weeks-before-the-global-pandemic


https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/15/how-china-broke-the-chain-of-infection


https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/24/how-the-chinese-authorities-and-the-world-health-organization-handled-the-coronavirus




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[Marxism] David Harvey: We Need a Collective Response to the Collective Dilemma of Coronavirus

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https://jacobinmag.com/2020/4/david-harvey-coronavirus-pandemic-capital-economy

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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-LatAm]: Ebert on de Alencastro, 'The Trade in the Living: The Formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries'

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Date: Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:20 AM
Subject: H-Net Review [H-LatAm]: Ebert on de Alencastro, 'The Trade in the
Living: The Formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, Sixteenth to
Seventeenth Centuries'
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Luiz Felipe de Alencastro.  The Trade in the Living: The Formation of
Brazil in the South Atlantic, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries.
Translated by Gavin Adams and Luiz Felipe de Alencastro. Revised by
Michael Wolfers and Dale Tomich. Albany  SUNY Press, 2018.  642 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-6929-4.

Reviewed by Christopher Ebert (Brooklyn College/City University of
New York)
Published on H-LatAm (April, 2020)
Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz

Published in 2000, Luiz Felipe de Alencastro's work _O trato dos
viventes: Formacção do Brasil no Atlantico Sul_ quickly achieved
the status of a classic of Brazilian historiography. Now it appears
in a new edition in English via SUNY Binghamton's Fernand Braudel
Center, a highly appropriate project for a work that fits securely in
the Annales school. Indeed, the work derives from a 1986 dissertation
written under the guidance of Frédéric Mauro, one of Braudel's
students. The new edition has the twin virtues of allowing the author
and his collaborators to incorporate much new relevant scholarship,
which they do comprehensively, as well as bringing the work to a
wider readership. That said, the second edition follows closely on
the first; Alencastro has not revised the structure of the work nor
modified his conclusions. Dominant amongst the latter is a
demonstration of the deep structural integration of various parts of
colonial Brazil with West and West-Central Africa and its
manifestation in predominately bilateral trade relationships in the
South Atlantic, anchored in the Atlantic slave trade. Since 2000,
this topic has been taken up by historians writing in various
languages, but Alencastro's work remains, in its scholarship, detail,
and argumentative rigor, the benchmark for an integrated sixteenth-
and seventeenth-century South Atlantic history. The relevance of the
work twenty years on is indisputable.

In the initial two chapters, Alencastro describes the conditions,
chiefly structural, that conditioned Portuguese colonial expansion in
the South Atlantic. Portuguese trade on the African Atlantic littoral
occurred early and was sustained. Acclimatized and acculturated
go-betweens helped to redirect African trade towards the Atlantic
coast, where Crown and church officials vied with merchants to
establish spheres of influence in coastal enclaves usually situated
at the mouths of the major African rivers. Additionally, the Crown
claimed the uninhabited African archipelagos of Cabo Verde and São
Tomé, establishing way stations that supported ongoing trade with
Africa as well as, eventually, shipping to the Indian Ocean. From the
beginning enslaved Africans formed a central part of Portuguese
African trade, although other products loomed large, including
African gold purchased in the Bight of Benin. As Alencastro points
out, the Catholic Church, from the mid-fifteenth century on,
sanctioned Portuguese slaving activities, rationalizing that, given
the near impossibility of proselytizing in the African interior,
bringing Africans out of the continent via the slave trade would
facilitate their salvation.

The chief beneficiary of African trade in its first 150 years was
Lisbon. Both merchants and Crown reaped profit from this and the
burgeoning Asia trade; in the same period the Crown gradually
tightened control over far-flung settlements and worked to limit the
participation of non-Portuguese subjects in new areas of economic
exchange. Lisbon became a lynchpin in the early slave trade; the city
received many African inhabitants, and shipping from Lisbon
carried--among other things--guns and horses to the African coast,
which when sold to African traders became the means of enslaving new
populations of Africans in interior villages. During the same period,
Portuguese global expansion entered a new phase which involved
settlement colonies and sugar plantation development. Pioneered in
Madeira and São Tomé, sugar plantations were well established in
various parts of the coast of Brazil by the second half of the
sixteenth century. Alencastro offers detailed descriptions of the
epidemiological and geographic conditions that caused sugar
plantation agriculture to operate almost exclusively on enslaved
Africans as it intensified in Brazil. Native mortality in the face of
new pathogens made indigenous slavery on the Brazilian coast very
difficult to 

[Marxism] Amazon’s Latest Union-Busting Tech: Heat Maps Monitoring Whole Foods | Observer

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[Marxism] Red, Black and white: The Communist Party in Alabama | Review of *Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930-1950*, by Mary Stanton | Tony Pecinovsky | People's World

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[Marxism] Missouri Pork Plant Workers Say They Can’t Cover Mouths to Cough

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(More on Smithfield workers as a follow-up to my CounterPunch article 
today.)


NY Times, April 24, 2020
Missouri Pork Plant Workers Say They Can’t Cover Mouths to Cough
By Noam Scheiber and Michael Corkery

Workers at a Smithfield Foods pork plant in Milan, Mo., say that for 
years they have endured repetitive stress injuries on the meat 
processing line — and urinary tract infections because they had so few 
bathroom breaks.


But as the coronavirus pandemic has emerged, workers say they have 
encountered another health complication: reluctance to cover their 
mouths while coughing or to clean their faces after sneezing, because 
this can cause them to miss a piece of meat as it goes by, creating a 
risk of disciplinary action.


The claims appear in a complaint filed Thursday in federal court by an 
anonymous Smithfield worker and the Rural Community Workers Alliance, a 
local advocacy group whose leadership council includes several other 
Smithfield workers.


The complaint also seeks to test a novel legal question: whether health 
hazards at the plant present a public nuisance.


Coronavirus infections have emerged as a significant problem at 
meatpacking plants around the country, with some closing and many others 
operating well below capacity. At least 10 workers in meatpacking and 
three workers in food processing have died of Covid-19, leaders of the 
United Food and Commercial Workers union said on Thursday. About 6,500 
employees either have contracted the virus, missed work because they had 
to self quarantine, or are waiting for tests or show symptoms, they said.


Officials of the union, which represents a vast majority of the workers 
in the pork and beef industries, said recent plant closings had reduced 
national beef production 10 percent and pork production 25 percent.


The court complaint about the Smithfield pork plant in Missouri, which 
is not unionized, says workers are typically required to stand almost 
shoulder to shoulder, must often go hours without being able to clean or 
sanitize their hands, and have difficulty taking sick leave.


“Since before the Covid-19, there was a problem with bathroom breaks,” 
said Axel Fuentes, the executive director of the workers alliance. But 
beginning in March, he said, “day after day, more people are concerned 
and scared about getting infected with the coronavirus.”


Smithfield said the complaint was without merit. “The health and safety 
of our employees is our top priority at all times,” said Keira Lombardo, 
the company’s executive vice president for corporate affairs and 
compliance. She cited a policy of not commenting on pending litigation, 
but she said the accusations “include claims previously made against the 
company that have been investigated and determined to be unfounded.”


Smithfield has shuttered a plant in Wisconsin and a plant in Martin 
City, Mo., in addition to a South Dakota slaughterhouse that employs 
hundreds of workers who have been infected by the virus. Tyson Foods has 
closed plants in Indiana, Washington and Iowa, one of which has 
reopened, and plants owned by other companies in Minnesota and Illinois 
have experienced outbreaks.


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which toured the South 
Dakota facility last week, recommended Thursday that Smithfield 
establish more social distancing barriers and possibly slow down the 
production line there to create more space between workers.


Beyond seeking to make workers safer, the complaint about the plant in 
Milan, Mo., is testing whether public nuisance law dating back hundreds 
of years can be used to protect workers on the job. The plaintiffs argue 
that Smithfield, by failing to take adequate safety measures, risks a 
coronavirus outbreak that could quickly spread to the entire community.


“It exists in any state — the idea of bringing the public nuisance,” 
said Karla Gilbride, a lawyer with Public Justice, a legal advocacy 
group that has worked with the Smithfield workers in Milan for several 
years and is helping to bring the complaint.


“If, whether it’s a private company or a private citizen, they’re 
operating something on their property and whatever they’re doing is 
unsafe and poses a danger to the entire community,” Ms. Gilbride said, 
“then the public has a right to safety and health.”


The lawsuit seeks to force Smithfield to change its practices at the 
plant but asks no monetary penalties or compensation. The case includes 
a second count under Missouri common law that requires employers to 
provide safe workplaces, but is being brought in federal court primarily 
because the parties to the complaint reside in 

Re: [Marxism] "Trump comments prompt doctors, and Lysol, to warn against injecting disinfectants"

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I have a slightly more ghoulish curiosity about how many of them are
actually ignoring social distancing, gathering in large crows with others
who believe it's all a hoax, and basically taking up his most
self-destructrive and lethal kind of advice, including this latest.  I
mean, it's a very big country and a media that gives him a massive
audience, and his followers include a lot of the most gullible bipeds on
the planet.
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Re: [Marxism] In the midst of an economic crisis, can 'degrowth' provide an answer? | Lola Seaton | Opinion | The Guardian

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On 4/24/2020 7:11 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/24/economic-crisis-degrowth-green-new-deal 



Lola Seaton:

"Most degrowth advocates do not champion economic contraction as such, 
but argue for the necessity of adapting to the continuing, long-term 
global stagnation sometimes called “secular stagnation”. The fact that 
we can only think of slowing down our economies in terms of recession 
and austerity – with the associated cuts to public spending, growth in 
inequality and decline in real earnings – says much more about our 
political landscape than the economic facts."


But we're not in the secular stagnation zone now, we're in a full-on 
meltdown.


I have a different view of the problem here: degrowth cannot yet 
properly grapple with a capitalist crisis that entails massive 
devalorisation of overaccumulated capital - even though such 
devalorisation is logically within a degrowth typology.


My critique is generally accepted by some of the degrowth comrades (so 
they say), but frankly I don't see them taking the enormous gap that the 
current conditions of capitalist meltdown would allow.


Here's the abstract:

https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/towards_a_political_economy_of_degrowth/3-156-2c50d07e-66fe-4355-af91-d7966546dfea

Degrowth, devaluation and uneven development from North to South

By Patrick Bond
in E.Chertkovskaya, A.Paulsson and S.Barca (Eds), The End of Growth As 
We Know It: Contributions to the Political Economy of Degrowth. London: 
Rowman and Littlefield, 2019.


Abstract
In spite of its relevance to global justice, the degrowth movement has 
barely begun to address potentials within the Global South to translate 
social demands for basic-needs goods and services away from for-profit 
production and distribution – the core process behind capitalist growth 
– and instead into degrowth through decommodification. At the same time, 
ongoing episodes of capitalist crisis entail the destruction of 
widespread industrial overcapacity, known as ‘devaluation’ of 
overaccumulated capital, a factor neglected by degrowth advocates. These 
crises provide a superb opportunity for degrowth’s political and 
intellectual migration from North to South. In the world’s largest 
economy, China, the partial economic downturn now underway (in early 
2019) is based upon such devaluations: cuts in steel and coal capacity 
following a classical capitalist crisis of overaccumulation. If official 
propaganda includes a grain of truth, Chinese examples of managed 
internal degrowth are encouraging, in the sense that managers of a 
planned economy can impose devaluation on private and public sector 
firms, at the same time as improving environmental conditions. Likewise, 
the world’s most unequal country, South Africa, is also suffering a 
massive post-2015 devaluation of mineral commodities and the currency, 
but lacking China’s sophisticated demand management, the tendency is to 
remain tracked into a futile GDP growth logic. While backlogs of 
basic-needs infrastructure, goods and services have animated 
post-apartheid social movements to protest successfully for concessions, 
this has not yet occurred under the ideological banner of a 
decommodification-centred degrowth – though it could if devaluation and 
uneven development are replaced by eco-socialist planning.


(Let me know offlist if you want the chapter.)



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[Marxism] "Trump comments prompt doctors, and Lysol, to warn against injecting disinfectants"

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For me the question is what impact this will have among his supporters.
What percentage of them will be inclined to turn away from him?
I expect his supporters are not all the same.
ken h

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Re: [Marxism] "Trump comments prompt doctors, and Lysol, to warn against injecting disinfectants"

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Mark, does anything surprise us anymore? 

I was wondering if there's evidence that a significant section of the U.S. 
bourgeoisie is distressed at having a moron in charge of the executive branch 
at a time of great medical and economic peril. Do we know of anyone studying 
this in depth?

Glenn

> Did any of us ever expect to see a headline like that?
> 
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/24/disinfectant-injection-coronavirus-trump/
>  
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[Marxism] Not a Joke: The Trump Admin Hired a Dog Breeder to Run Its Coronavirus Task Force | Vanity Fair

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[Marxism] In the midst of an economic crisis, can 'degrowth' provide an answer? | Lola Seaton | Opinion | The Guardian

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/24/economic-crisis-degrowth-green-new-deal

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[Marxism] Thinking Out Loud about the End of Social Democracy - New Politics

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Interesting but very far-fetched positing of the question whether some 
kind of bureaucratic collectivism will be adopted by elements of the 
capitalist class, if the coronavirus proves resistant to eradication.


https://newpol.org/thinking-out-loud-about-the-end-of-social-democracy/

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[Marxism] "Trump comments prompt doctors, and Lysol, to warn against injecting disinfectants"

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Did any of us ever expect to see a headline like that?

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[Marxism] NY Times: Richard Sobol, Civil Rights Lawyer in the South, Dies at 82

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Unlike other Northern lawyers who joined the struggle in the South, he
stayed, and won a landmark case.

By Katharine Q. Seelye
April 23, 2020

In 1966, on a swampy strip of land south of New Orleans, a young black man
named Gary Duncan was defusing a potential fight between white and black
teenagers outside a newly integrated school when he touched an arm of one
of the white boys, who recoiled. The police later arrested Mr. Duncan on a
charge of battery. His request for a jury trial was denied, and he was
sentenced to 60 days in prison and fined $150.

Mr. Duncan and his mother asked a young, white civil rights lawyer, Richard
Sobol, to represent him, which he did. Mr. Sobol fought the case all the
way to the United States Supreme Court. In a landmark 1968 decision, the
court ruled for Mr. Duncan and established the right to a jury trial in
state criminal cases.

The ruling was a major victory for the civil rights movement and for Mr.
Sobol, who was 29 at the time and just beginning his legal career.

Over the next half-century, he would file scores of challenges involving
racial and sexual discrimination in employment, education, voting and
housing. He became one of the nation’s busiest and most successful — if
unsung — champions of civil rights.

Mr. Sobol died on March 24 at his home in Sebastopol, Calif. He was 82. His
wife, Anne Sobol, also a lawyer who sometimes practiced with him, said the
cause was aspiration pneumonia.

Mr. Sobol took on a wide range of civil rights cases, often at great
personal risk and under threat of violence. In the Duncan case, he was
thrown in jail on bogus charges. His release was an important victory for
civil rights lawyers across the South.

In his litigation, he made particularly effective use of the new Civil
Rights Act of 1964 and its Title VII, which prohibited racial
discrimination in employment.

In a major lawsuit against a paper mill in Bogalusa, La. — one of the first
class-action suits involving Title VII — he successfully argued that the
use of tests in hiring and the use of seniority in promotions violated the
Civil Rights Act.

“He was a natural,” Ms. Sobol said in an interview. “He practiced law on a
whole different level from most of us.”

Mr. Sobol often said that his greatest defeat was his failure to convince
the Supreme Court in 1972 that juries should be required to reach unanimous
decisions. The court revisited the issue recently and, in a triumph that he
did not live to see, ruled on Monday that jury decisions involving serious
crimes had to be unanimous.

Mr. Sobol practiced primarily in Louisiana and Washington, D.C. But he
preferred working in the trenches in Louisiana than on antitrust cases for
the white shoe firm in Washington that employed him. In a description of
his early career — which he wrote as a chapter for “Voices of Civil Rights
Lawyers” (2017), edited by Kent Spriggs — he said that most of his work in
Washington “never came to anything, certainly not to anything one could be
proud of.”

By contrast, he wrote, within 10 days of arriving in Louisiana in 1965, he
won a school desegregation case that allowed black children to attend white
schools. “I saw the impact one lawyer, familiar with federal litigation
practice, could have,” he wrote.

He stayed in Louisiana longer than he had initially planned. And across the
decades he made a difference in scores of cases, big and small.

“He devoted his life to seeing that justice was done,” George Cooper, a
retired professor from Columbia Law School, who met Mr. Sobol in the early
1960s and worked on cases with him, said in a phone interview.

“He was one of the legions of young lawyers who went South in the 1960s to
help with the civil rights movement,” Mr. Cooper said. “But unlike so many
others, he stayed on the ground and saw it through. In the process, he won
notable cases but also gave a whole segment of the population a chance for
justice that they might not have had otherwise.”

While prominent in legal circles, Mr. Sobol was less known to the general
public. That may change with a forthcoming documentary film, “A Crime on
the Bayou,” by Nancy Buirski, and a new book, “Deep Delta Justice,” by
Matthew Van Meter, both scheduled for release soon.

Richard Barry Sobol was born on May 29, 1937, in Manhattan to Alfred and
Anne (Alberg) Sobol. His father was a lawyer, and his mother was a high
school math teacher and a homemaker.

Richard attended the Bronx High School of Science before enrolling at Union
College in Schenectady, N.Y., from which he graduated in 1958. He graduated
from Columbia Law School in 1961.

His early marriage to Barbara Simonovitz ended in divorce. 

[Marxism] Capitalism Is Killing Us | Review of *Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism*, by Anne Case and Angus Deaton | Zachary Siegel | The Nation

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[Marxism] Smithfield and our troubled future | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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On April 15th, Smithfield closed down its pork factory in Sioux Falls, 
South Dakota after 640 employees became sick from COVID-19. They 
constitute 44 percent of all COVID-19 cases in the state, making it the 
epicenter of the pandemic locally.


Joseph W. Luter founded the company in 1936. Like most industrial 
meat-producing companies, Smithfield became infamous for CAFO, the 
initials for concentrated animal feeding operation. Poultry farms were 
the first to convert operations to CAFO in the 1950s, followed by beef 
and pork in the ensuing decades. Smithfield’s flagship operation was Tar 
Heel, North Carolina, which processed 32,000 pigs a day. Given the 
highly concentrated nature of this mode of production, disposing of 
waste products is a chore for management. Pig excrement tends to follow 
the path of least resistance, however. It flows directly into the rivers 
and lakes of the states that house CAFO-type operations.


In 2019, Hurricane Florence struck North Carolina. In Duplin County, 
CAFOs produce twice as much pig urine and feces as all the toilets in 
New York City. Most of it ends up in hog “lagoons”, the open-air pits 
clustered in the area hardest hit by Hurricane Florence. It caused 
overflows that carried E. coli, salmonella, cryptosporidium, and other 
harmful bacteria into North Carolina waters. Even when there are no 
hurricanes, there is still extensive water pollution since the lagoons 
seep into groundwater that then pollutes rivers and lakes.


full: 
https://louisproyect.org/2020/04/24/smithfield-and-our-troubled-future/


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[Marxism] Prof. Abderrahmane Mebtoul: “We have witnessed a veritable planetary hecatomb and the world will never be the same again.” « Algérie Résistance

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https://mohsenabdelmoumen.wordpress.com/2020/04/24/prof-abderrahmane-mebtoul-we-have-witnessed-a-veritable-planetary-hecatomb-and-the-world-will-never-be-the-same-again/

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[Marxism] bellingcat - Dying To Keep Warm: Oil Trade And Makeshift Refining In North-West Syria - bellingcat

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[Marxism] “Really Want to Flood NY and NJ”: Internal Documents Reveal Team Trump’s Chloroquine Master Plan | Vanity Fair

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[Marxism] New HHS Spokesman Has Deleted Racist Tweets Published As The Coronavirus Spread | HuffPost

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In a tweet published on March 12, Caputo claimed that “millions of 
Chinese suck the blood out of rabid bats as an appetizer and eat the ass 
out of anteaters” ― a post that was in response to a question about how 
he knew that the novel coronavirus started in Wuhan, China.


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[Marxism] Despite the siege, Venezuela controls the coronavirus (Maria Paez Victor, Counterpunch)

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[Marxism] FW: PDF DOWNLOAD of new Book on COVID-19 Global Counterrevolution

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Dear comrade,

The publication of my new book is now completed and it can be downloaded as a 
PDF on our website. I would appreciate if you could forward this email to the 
Marxism list for information purpose.

Best wishes,

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The COVID-19 Global Counterrevolution: What It Is and How to Fight It

A Marxist analysis and strategy for the revolutionary struggle

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Re: [Marxism] Invitation to attend virtual lecture on Lenin at 150 this Wednesday, April 22nd.

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Actually never mind, here is the video recording of the teach-in on Lenin
at 150:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01z8Mzz2IY4

Warmest regards,
Kaiwen
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:22 PM Kaiwen Dong  wrote:

> Thanks to all from the Marxism mailing list who attended, I hope you had a
> good time!
>
> For those who couldn't join us and are interested, here's the audio
> recording of the event:
> https://archive.org/details/lenin-150-years
>
> (Sadly the video did not work.)
>
> Warmest regards,
> Kaiwen
> dongkaiw...@gmail.com
> The Platypus Affiliated Society organizes reading groups, public fora,
> research, and journalism focused on problems and tasks inherited from the
> "Old" (1920s-30s), "New" (1960s-70s) and post-political (1980s-90s) Left,
> for the possibilities of emancipatory politics today.
> http://www.platypus1917.org
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 10:27 PM Kaiwen Dong 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Marxism Mailing list,
>>
>> My name is Kaiwen, and I am a student studying math and a member of the
>> Platypus Affiliated Society. If you are free *today* i.e. *Wednesday,
>> April 22nd*, I would like to invite you to attend a virtual lecture over
>> Zoom that will be given by Chris Cutrone (who teaches at the School of the
>> Art Institute of Chicago) on Lenin at 150 at *11 AM Pacific/12 PM
>> Mountain/1 PM Central/2 PM Eastern/6 PM GMT*.
>>
>> Zoom link here:
>> https://zoom.us/j/96101299683
>>
>> On the occasion of his 150th birthday, Platypus poses the question: What
>> is Lenin's legacy today?
>>
>> Reference will be made to Ralph Miliband's critical essay on Lenin's
>> 100th birthday in 1970 on Lenin's State and Revolution, republished in
>> Jacobin magazine in 2018:
>> https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/lenin-state-and-revolution-miliband
>>
>> Facebook event page here:
>> https://www.facebook.com/events/215170119778817/
>>
>> We hope to see some of those on the Marxism Mailing list there! Hope you
>> all are safe and well during these uncertain times.
>>
>> Warmest regards,
>> Kaiwen
>>
>
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